Contributors to This Volume

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME C. W. BRADDICK has been assistant professor at Musashi University, Tôkyô, since 1989. Born in 1961 in Yeovil, England, he studied at University Col- lege Wales, the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, and University of Tôkyô before obtaining a D.Phil. in international relations from Oxford University in 1998. He is the author of several articles on Japanese postwar foreign relations, and his forthcoming book is entitled Japan and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1950–1964. Fred DICKINSON has been assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania since 1993. Born in Tôkyô in 1961, he received an M.A. in international politics from Kyôto University in 1986 and a Ph.D. in history from Yale University in 1993. He is author of War an Na- tional Reinvention: Japan in the Great War, 1914–1919 (forthcoming). Prasenjit DUARA is Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He was born 1950 in Assam, India, graduated from St. Stephen’s College in Delhi, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1983. He is author of Culture, Power and the State: Rural North China 1900–1942 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988, 1991), which won two national prizes, and also of Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Mod- ern China (Chicago: Chicago University, 1995, 1996). He is currently working on a transnational history of East Asia in the early twentieth century, tentatively entitled World Culture and the Frontiers of the East Asian Modern. Harald FUESS has been a research associate at the German Institute for Jap- anese Studies in Tôkyô since 1995. Born 1967 in Darmstadt, Germany, he studied history at the universities of Princeton, Sophia, and Tôkyô before receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1995. His research is in Japanese social history, especially gender and the family, and he recently published “A Golden Age of Fatherhood? Parent-Child Relations in Jap- anese Historiography” in Monumenta Nipponca (1997). Karl G. GERTH, a Ph.D. candidate in the history department of Harvard University, is currently a Junior Fulbright Scholar and visiting researcher at the Modern History Institute of Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Born in 1966 in the United States, he is now completing a dissertation entitled “Nationalizing Consumption, Consuming Nationalism: the National 251 Contributors to this Volume Products Movement in China, 1905–1937,” which examines the cultural, political, and economic links between nationalism and consumption. Joachim GLAUBITZ retired as professor in international relations from the University of Munich. Born in 1929 in Görlitz, Silesia, he studied sinology and japanology in Leipzig and Hamburg. From 1968 to 1992 he was a sen- ior research fellow at the Science and Politics Foundation (Stiftung Wis- senschaft und Politik) in Ebenhausen, Bavaria. His main interests are in foreign and security affairs in East Asia and in Russia’s Asia policy. His most recent book is Between Tokyo and Moscow: The History of an Uneasy Re- lationship, 1972 to the 1990s. Harumi GOTO-SHIBATA has been associate professor at Chiba University since 1996. Born in Tôkyô, she studied at the University of Tôkyô before obtaining her D. Phil. from Oxford University in 1994. Her research inter- est is in Britain’s relations with Japan and China during the interwar period. Her publications include Japan and Britain in Shanghai, 1925–31 (Lon- don and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1995). Hyung Gu LYNN, who has lived for five or more years each in Japan, Ko- rea, Canada, and the United States, is a researcher at Hitotsubashi Univer- sity, Institute of Economic Research, from 1998 to 1999. Born in 1965 in Yokohama, he received his B.A. and M.A. in history from the University of British Columbia. His Ph.D. dissertation at Harvard University is on policy formulation for colonial period Korea, 1919–45. He was also a visiting researcher at the University of Tôkyô and Yokohama City Universi- ty. His research interests include Japanese colonialism in Korea, compar- ative history of colonialism, and business history. Janis MIMURA is a Ph.D. candidate in the history department of the Uni- versity of California at Berkeley. Born in 1963 in Ohio, she obtained her B.S. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.A. in history from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests are in the political, economic, and intellectual history of Japan, especially in historical political economy and in historical comparisons between Japan and Germany in the interwar and wartime period. Adam SCHNEIDER is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University. Born in 1965 in the United States, he studied at the universities of Kyôto, Tôkyô, and Harvard. His research interests are mainly in Japanese imperialism and business history. 252 Contributors to this Volume Christopher W. A. SZPILMAN has been visiting professor at Takushoku University since 1997 and visiting foreign scholar at Tôkyô University since 1996. Born in 1951 in Warsaw, Poland, he studied at Leeds Univer- sity, the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Tôkyô University before receiving his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1993. His research interests include modern Japanese political and intellectual history, and he recently published “Taiheiyô sensô kaishi ni itaru made no Ô-Bei ni okeru tai-Nichi-kan,” in Genbaku tôka e no shinpan, ed. Saeki Nobuchika (Tôkyô: Shinseidô, 1996); “Kanô Jigorô no rekishiteki igi,” in Sekai no naka no Nihon, ed. Takushoku Daigaku Kôhôka (Tôkyô: Takushoku Daigaku Shuppankyoku, 1998). Daqing YANG teaches modern Japanese history at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Born in 1964 in China, he studied at the universities of Nanjing, Hawaii, and Chicago before receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1996. His publications include “A Sino-Japa- nese Controversy: The Nanjing Atrocity as History,” Sino-Japanese Studies 3, no. 2 (November 1990); and “Colonial Korea in Japan’s Imperial Tele- communications Network” in Modernity, Hegemony, and Identity in Coloni- al Korea, ed. Gi-Wook Shin and Michael Robinson (forthcoming). He is currently working on a book manuscript on telecommunications net- works in Japan’s Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere. 253.

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